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Best cell phone & service?

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Let me preface this whole thing by saying I hate cell phones for anything but emergencies.

I have Nextel for work and hate it. My building is very close to two towers and I can lose service if the wind is blowing, or at least it seems that way. Everyone has complained about the incessant beeping of the direct connect feature but what is worse is how you cannot interrupt someone who is using that feature. I have resorted to putting the actual phone number as opposed to the direct connect number for coworkers who talk too damn much. That way if I have to talk to them I can interrupt them five seconds into a conversation as opposed to listening to a two minute diatribe about something I can answer quickly.

Yeah, I interrupt them, but like I said I hate cell phones. I carry one because work requires it and that is the only reason.

Oh yeah, there is nothing quite like how someone will take a phone call while in the middle of a conversation with you.
 
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I am surprised that nobody has mentioned T-Mobile. You can get a free phone..for a one year contract. If you get your one year contract(or the service plan as it is also referred to) from amazon.com, you can get a pretty snazzy phone and 100$ cash back. So it is basically -100. Then u can call T-mobile and acticate it..u might have to pay 30 bucks for activation fee but u still end up getting cash and free phone for a 1 year contract.

As for reception, it's pretty good. I have used it in Ohio and CA. It's pretty good in mid-west but could be better out in the west coast.

As for plans, I have a nationwide plan..no roaming/regional plan crap that ATT used to have in my previous contract..

I have 600 anytime minutes and unlimited nights and weekends..for 45 bucks u could get 1000 anytime minutes and unlimited nights and weekends..I would recommend T-mobile.

ATT & Cingular also have some good deals..but they require a two year contract..and try getting phone on the web..u get a much better phone with cashback..if u get it from an agent in a mall/bestbuy etc..u get a very basic phone for free and no cash back.
 
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jlb1705 said:
Verizon has the second largest network, but their network is by far more reliable than any other out there. Also, their customer service is the best. Their plans start out at $39.99/mo., inclued unlimited In-Network calling, no roaming charges, ultd. nights & weekends, and incl. long distance. The nationwide plan at that price gets you 450 mins./mo., while the local version gets you 550. If you go up to the next plan, it's $59.99/mo., and it doubles you anytime minutes.

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I currently work for VZW and can tell you a bit more about the plans and phone deals that are currently going on if anyone would like to know. You can shoot me an email or a private message. I will answer all questions truthfully and honestly unless its something that I would not be able to answer because of business confidentiality agreements and so forth.
 
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I'm not trying to steer anyone to a certain place or anything, but if you found a phone cheaper at the Verizon store than at a RadioShack, odds are it was an exception to what normally takes place. I'm not saying this out of loyalty to my employer (because that ran out a while ago,) but most of the time the better price on the equipment does come at RadioShack. I'm not sure exactly how it stacks up as of this moment, I'm just going on what I generally hear from customers who come in my store and from my store's Verizon reps. The same usually goes for our pricing on Sprint phones as well.

Howie Long?! Haha! I wish they gave me Howie Long money!
 
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sears3820 said:
Stay away from Sprint.
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What's wrong with Sprint? I have had no problems with Sprint myself, but I guess there could be a problem if you live in the middle of nowhere. Everyplace I go has PCS service from Cleveland to Cbus except for a small area between Mt. Vernon to Granville. My whole family is on Sprint so the free PCS and 7:00 nights is good. I pay $75 a month for me, my mom, and my brother to share 500 minutes.
My girlfriend has Verizon and tends to have more problems than I do. Nights don't start until 9:00 and they charge you minutes to check your VM. She went over her 500 minutes by $100 last month mainly because of the VM thing. She also has to do something to her phone every once and a while so that it will pick up new towers.
 
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exhawg said:
What's wrong with Sprint? I have had no problems with Sprint myself, but I guess there could be a problem if you live in the middle of nowhere. Everyplace I go has PCS service from Cleveland to Cbus except for a small area between Mt. Vernon to Granville. My whole family is on Sprint so the free PCS and 7:00 nights is good. I pay $75 a month for me, my mom, and my brother to share 500 minutes.
My girlfriend has Verizon and tends to have more problems than I do. Nights don't start until 9:00 and they charge you minutes to check your VM. She went over her 500 minutes by $100 last month mainly because of the VM thing. She also has to do something to her phone every once and a while so that it will pick up new towers.
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I have sprint and hate it.
My nights start at 9.
I did not know they didn't charge you to check VM, is this new? I know in the past I was charged.
As for the reasons I hate sprint, its simple, their coverage sucks.
Outside, they aren't bad.
Once you step foot into a house, restaurant, bar, school building, office, etc 90% of the time you lose coverage.
Its annoying, and pathetic when every other carrier has service somewhere, but you dont.
 
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strohs said:
I have sprint and hate it.
My nights start at 9.
I did not know they didn't charge you to check VM, is this new? I know in the past I was charged.
As for the reasons I hate sprint, its simple, their coverage sucks.
Outside, they aren't bad.
Once you step foot into a house, restaurant, bar, school building, office, etc 90% of the time you lose coverage.
Its annoying, and pathetic when every other carrier has service somewhere, but you dont.
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They might charge for VM, I have never been able to tell. I just called my VM for 2 minutes and it didn't add any minutes to my usage on the webpage. Do you have free PCS to PCS? It's also well worth the extra $5 a month to get 7:00 nights.

For anyone, if you want the best deal that you can get the family plans look good. I checked out Verizon for my gf because her whole family uses it and it would be $179 for 5 phones and 2500 minutes a month. That would be a hell of a lot less than they are all paying now. Sprint is an extra $20 a phone unless your plan is over $100 a month (they screwed up my plan and gave me 2 lines for $20 :P ). Verizon is $10 a line.

Edit: It did eventually add the minutes from my VM. I just don't get too many VM's that it is a problem.
 
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strohs said:
I have sprint and hate it.
My nights start at 9.
I did not know they didn't charge you to check VM, is this new? I know in the past I was charged.
As for the reasons I hate sprint, its simple, their coverage sucks.
Outside, they aren't bad.
Once you step foot into a house, restaurant, bar, school building, office, etc 90% of the time you lose coverage.
Its annoying, and pathetic when every other carrier has service somewhere, but you dont.
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It could be your phone.... most times if you have a shitty phone it will cause the brunt of your problems.
 
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strohs said:
My phone is a Sumsung A500.
My brother also just got a brand new one, one expensive ass mofo (he had some rebates and insurance and crap) and he has the same service problems I do.
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Hmmm I've heard good things about most Samsungs. I have this one:

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You don't work in a bomb shelter by any chance do you? :p My mom and brother have the free Nokia phones and don't have any problems. They are pretty rural except for living a few miles from 71.
 
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I have had Cingular for a little over a year now, and have had zero problems. As far as coverage areas go-if you are out in the sticks in NW Ohio-more than 5 miles off I-75, it is Sprint only out there. I was also out in the boonies near Medford, Oregon and could not get reception until I was about 2 or 3 miles from the actual town. On the other hand, our football team was out in the sticks in California, Pennsylvania-about 50 miles S of Pittsburgh-and my Cingular was the only phone that had reception in the area-no Verizon or Sprint. I pay $38.00 a month for about 400 minutes-more if you count nights/weekends-certainly enough for my needs.
 
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I've been with Cingular for over 5 years and have had nothing but good things to say about them until recently. I always used to get great reception everywhere I went until I switched phones from the Motorola v60 to the Motorola v180. Now I get pretty good reception everywhere except where I use it the most... My house! My phone gets absolutely no reception in my neighborhood and I live in the suburbs....wtf?! I called Cingular and they said that I am right in the middle of three towers and that I shouldn't be having any problems. So I asked if I could change my phone thinking maybe that was the problem and they wanted me to pay full price for the phone.
 
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exhawg said:
You don't work in a bomb shelter by any chance do you? :p My mom and brother have the free Nokia phones and don't have any problems. They are pretty rural except for living a few miles from 71.
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Haha, but its not just work.
I barely get service in my apt on Indianola, and in some places inside I get none.
I get little to no service at my parents house in the middle of Dublin, I have to go outside to talk.
I had the same problem at their old house around the Kenny road / OSU golf course area.
This is the same for all 5 members of my family, all have sprint, and all have different phones.
Outside, sprint is hard to beat, its just once you get inside its signal loses strength.

In the end though, each company has its share of +/-'s, its mostly personal opinion.
I just know in August when my contract is up, im done with sprint.
 
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